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by scentoni 7y ago
Laser interferometry will pinpoint the distance to far less than a millimeter.
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Better Than Deep Learning: Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM)(datascience.la)
1 points by scentoni 8y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
If you exchange electron A with A', the wave function changes sign (antisymmetric). But if you exchange A with A' and B with B', nothing is changed (symmetric).
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by scentoni 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NA...
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Radical new 3D body scanner delivers startling first human images(cnet.com)
1 points by scentoni 8y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
for background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffoli_gate
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by scentoni 8y ago
To comment on other answers about E=mc^2 and KE=1/2 mv^2, these are just different parts of the relativistic energy E=mc^2 cosh(eta) where eta is the velocity parameter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_velocit
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Animated GIF shows ‘snow’ on Rosetta’s comet(geekwire.com)
2 points by scentoni 8y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
The asterisk has nothing to do with indicating it is a star. > The name Sgr A* was coined by Brown in a 1982 paper because the radio source was "exciting", and excited states of atoms are denoted with asterisks. https:/&#
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by scentoni 8y ago
And VMs that IBM invented on mainframes. And containers that IBM invented on mainframes.
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by scentoni 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
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by scentoni 8y ago
What C and its descendents have instead is numerous repetitions of '\s}\n' to end if-then-elseif-else switch-case for while until functions methods classes and good luck figuring out which matches which when there's more than
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We Just Found the Part of the Brain Responsible for Free Will(iflscience.com)
13 points by scentoni 8y ago|2 comments
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Rotating plots to form diamonds could prevent correlation-causation confusion(nature.com)
2 points by scentoni 8y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund
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by scentoni 8y ago
That's no star...
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by scentoni 8y ago
Epoxy doesn't melt. It burns--at a temperature where your computer case starts melting.
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by scentoni 8y ago
I noted that the one question in the video was asked by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan , the main architect of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 floating point. Both Lamport and
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by scentoni 8y ago
Indiana has the most complicated time zone history of any state in the US because of a long-running battle between those who want to be on Eastern time for synchronization with the East Coast and those who want to be on Central time because
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OS-9(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by scentoni 8y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation
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by scentoni 8y ago
Do Nobel-caliber work along with 3 or more other people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Cabibbo
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by scentoni 8y ago
If you don't want to install Haskell and other dependencies, several folks have developed Docker images for using pandoc: https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~ivo/_posts/2015-03-12-repeatable... http://gbra
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by scentoni 8y ago
The closest thing I'm aware of is the spreadsheet functionality in Emacs org-mode: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro... https://orgmode.org/manual/The-spreadshe
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by scentoni 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation A prime example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX where Intel spent extra money to develop a way of damaging a 486DX so it could be s
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Gene editing crunches an organism’s genome into single, giant DNA molecule(arstechnica.com)
1 points by scentoni 8y ago|0 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
Gravitational lensing is a distortion of spacetime. It affects all particles, including neutrinos.
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by scentoni 8y ago
The photo: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/91hv2e/facial_reco...
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2 malls using facial recognition technology to track shoppers' ages and genders(cbc.ca)
3 points by scentoni 8y ago|1 comments
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by scentoni 8y ago
I guess this is what you're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Richard_Gott#Copernicus_met...

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